VIRTUAL DISCUSSIONS

Independent Voting regularly invites our network to participate in virtual discussion of interest to independents. This includes a series of Virtual Discussions produced by our partners at Open Primaries.

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From 1999 to 2020 JS hosted a national conference call for new and veteran political activists. You can listen to past conference calls below.

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12/04/12

A Post-Election Conversation with Jackie Salit: What’s Next for Independents

Salit’s post-election analysis after Obama’s second presidential election, including the role independents played. How the Democrats abandoned the anti-partisan coalition that propelled Obama in 2008.  Divided independent vote was an expression of how deeply disturbed independents are by partisanship.  Many people came away saying, we really have to do something about way our political process operated.

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10/09/12

Bringing Culture Change to America

Following presidential debates and fresh off first leg of a book tour on Independents Rising, Salit gives an overview of her travels and how the movement is developing from the bottom up, including how nonpartisan elections are faring in California.  

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08/07/12

Independents Rising: Outsider Movements, Third Parties and the Struggle for a Post-Partisan America

On the day that Salit’s Book Independent Rising, a 30-year history about the independent movement. hit  the book stores, Salit gives a report on the state of the movement.

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